Overloaded IsOfTemplate methods

src/Sitecore.Commons/Extensions/ItemExtensions.cs

@@ -167,6 +167,42 @@ public static bool IsOfTemplate(this Item item, string templateId)
  return (item.TemplateID.ToString() == templateId);
  }
 
+ /// <summary>
+ /// check to verify that the item is of passed template
+ /// </summary>
+ /// <param name = "item"></param>
+ /// <param name = "templateId"></param>
+ /// <returns></returns>
+ public static bool IsOfTemplate(this Item item, ID templateId)
+ {
+ return item.IsOfTemplate(templateId.ToString());
+ }
+
+ /// <summary>
+ /// Will check the item's template, if deep is enabled it will check item's base templates
+ /// This signature should be avoided because of potential performance issues. If you MUST recurse along template inheritance prefer passing depth as an int and work to minimised its value
+ /// </summary>
+ /// <param name = "item"></param>
+ /// <param name = "templateId"></param>
+ /// <param name = "deep"></param>
+ /// <returns></returns>
+ public static bool IsOfTemplate(this Item item, ID templateId, bool deep)
+ {
+ return item.IsOfTemplate(templateId.ToString(), deep);
+ }
+
+ /// <summary>
+ /// Will check the item's template, if depth is non-zero it will recurse down the item's base templates
+ /// </summary>
+ /// <param name = "item"></param>
+ /// <param name = "templateId"></param>
+ /// <param name = "depth">0 = 'Do not recurse', -1 = 'recurse as far as system base template', n = 'recurse a maximum of n times'</param>
+ /// <returns></returns>
+ public static bool IsOfTemplate(this Item item, ID templateId, int depth)
+ {
+ return item.IsOfTemplate(templateId.ToString(), depth);
+ }
+
  /// <summary>
  /// Checks to see if an item is null
  /// </summary>